Shyam Benegal, the father of parallel cinema in India, is known for his films like Manthan, Ankur, Bhumika, Nishant, Mandi, Junoon, Kalyug and Zubeidaa among others. Over his career span, Benegal ...

Naa Ninna Bidalare’ is a 1979 Kannada horror film directed by Vijay Reddi. The film stars Padma Bhushan Anant Nag and ...

Six months after his passing, Shyam Benegal’s legacy lives on through his socially conscious cinema. A pioneer of parallel ...

The role of Laxmi, a poor, unlettered Dalit housemaid in an Andhra Pradesh village, from the late director Shyam Benegal’s iconic debut Ankur (1974), was offered to then actor-later director ...

For Shyam Benegal, it was still a good time to continue his relentless film making activities. Between 1995 and 2005 he made 6 more feature films and 2 more television serials.

Benegal made his feature film debut with Ankur at a comparatively late age of 40, but he went on to make 23 more features in the next 5 decades.

The Indian film-maker Shyam Benegal, who has died aged 90, was a pillar of the “parallel cinema” movement, the informal grouping of independently minded and funded creatives whose work stood in stark, ...

Absorbing yet rigorous, the film hit a nerve, turning a healthy profit on its initial run and being selected to compete at the Berlin film festival. Benegal followed it with two further films that – ...

Shyam Benegal: Benegal was prepared – intellectually, artistically – to make Ankur, which lay like a dormant seedling waiting to grow, while he honed his craft making ad films for a leading ...

Anant Nag who appeared in six Shyam Benegal films -- Ankur, Nishant, Manthan, Bhumika, Kondura and Kalyug -- reminisces about the legendary director.

The injustices highlighted in Ankur and Nishant are as disconcerting now as they were then but Benegal's potent commentary on caste and class aren't his only achievements. Apart from social ...

Shyam Benegal (December 14, 1934 – December 23, 2024) was a celebrated Indian film director, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker, widely regarded as a pioneer of parallel cinema in India.